Charles Vildrac

Japanese: ビルドラック - びるどらっく(英語表記)Charles Vildrac
Charles Vildrac

French playwright and poet. His real name was Charles Messager. Born in Paris to a journalist father. He started out as a poet leading the Abbey School and Unionism movement, with friends such as Jules Roman and Georges Duhamel, whose motto was to portray group psychology. However, after his stage success in 1920, after the First World War, his work The Merchant Ship Tenacity was performed, he turned to playwriting. He subsequently published works such as Michel Auclair (1923), The Poor Man (1923), Madame Belliard (1925), The Gardener of Samos (1928), and The Quarrel (1930), which showed a stronger tendency towards introspection. In any case, he gained mass popularity in the interwar period, especially in the 1920s, by drawing heartwarming and delicate dramas from the themes of ordinary people's lives. He is also famous for his long animal fable, "The Lion's Glasses" (1932). He visited Japan once before World War II. He died on June 28, 1971 at his villa in Saint-Tropez, southern France.

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[Reference] | Merchant Ship Tenashichi

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

フランスの劇作家、詩人。本名はシャルル・メサジェCharles Messager。ジャーナリストを父にパリに生まれる。初めジュール・ロマンやジョルジュ・デュアメルらと親交を結んで、集団心理の描出をモットーに掲げたアベイ派、ユナニミスム運動のリーダーの詩人として出発したが、第一次世界大戦後の1920年に『商船テナシチー』が舞台にかけられ、大当りして以来劇作に転向。その後『ミシェル・オークレール』(1923)、『赤貧の人』(1923)、『マダム・ベリアール』(1925)、『サモスの庭師』(1928)、『仲たがい』(1930)などを発表、いよいよ内面派的傾向を強くしたが、ともあれこうして両大戦間、ことに20年代、平凡な庶民の生活を題材に心温まるデリケートなドラマをそこから引き出して大衆的な人気を得た。長編動物寓話(ぐうわ)『ライオンのめがね』(1932)も有名。第二次大戦前に一度来日したことがある。71年6月28日、南フランス、サン・トロペの別荘で死去。

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